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Unable to validate my email. Earlier it wasn't working at all, now it tells me I need to be logged in (but I am, I think).

Edit: Fixed for me now.

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We had a bug in email validation (worked on staging grumble grumble). Separately, our deploy script blows away memcached. Guess where email validation tokens were kept.

I temporarily turned off bust-cache-on-deploy and the rapidly rising number of validated emails suggests things are working now. Now back to more DevOps craziness.

I wanted to give you a status update of what new users currently experience. Or at least what I'm experiencing.

After creating an account, I was redirected to the front page with no notification about whether it succeeded or failed. No emails have arrived. When I try to create it again, I get "username already taken" and "email already taken", so something worked. But when I try to log in, I'm redirected to the front page with no notifications. In other words, login is failing.

To clarify, this isn't a complaint. Congratulations on launching, and apologies if you're already aware of these issues.

Edit: This is similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10724699 but I'm unable to log in after clearing cookies. I get "Couldn't sign in. Check username/password" for a correct password.

For email validation you can also just used a signed json token (jwt), so that way the only thing you need to store on your servers is the secret key.

I'm in the same loop. Click link, verify email, tells me to login, already logged in, re log in, verify url, still says verify.

With that. Congrats to all three of you. It's an exciting day

edit: Woot. Fixed.

Blow away cookies for the site and try again.

Try again. This was happening to me as well. I eventually generated a new email and it worked.

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